What for is a Jira Component Lead?

[Anna Olenberg]

Hello dear Jira experts, 

please help me to understand what for a Component lead is used in Jira.

The documentation https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver073/managing-components-861253335.html did not help me at all. 

Thanks in advance!

Greetings, Anna

[Jack Brickey · Accepted solution]

Generally this is a way of automatically assigning issues for a give Component to a give person. So if you have 3 components each with a lead then when issues are created they are assigned to the proper person. If you don't have a lead for a component then it can be left unassigned or assigned to the Project Lead.

[Anna Olenberg]

Thank you Jack!

[Anna Olenberg]

And what happens if there are several components with different component leads? 

I tested this now and it seems to me, that Jira sorts the components like this:

1. numbers sorted ascending

2. names sorted alphabetically

 and from this sorting takes the first component lead, right?